Watch: Madonna finally slams Gaga's copycat song 'Born This Way'

When Lady Gaga released 'Born This Way' last year, the internet exploded with claims the song sounded like 'Express Yourself' by Madonna. Madge herself remained tight-lipped on the matter - until now!

When asked on US program 20/20 whether she thought Gaga had copied her song, Madonna said: "When I heard it on the radio …I said 'that sounds very familiar'".

When asked if the homage was 'annoying', Madonna replied: 'It felt reductive'.

Reductive? It's a word that means 'crude' or 'minimal' - Madonna told the reporter to look the word up rather than explain its meaning on camera.

It wasn't all thinly-veiled digs, though.

"She's a very talented artist," she said earlier in the interview.

"I certainly think she references me a lot in her work. And sometimes I think it’s amusing and flattering and well done."[Her songs seem to be a] statement about taking something that was in the Zeitgeist, you know, 20 years ago and turning it inside out and reinterpreting it...

"There’s a lot of ways to look at it. I can’t really be annoyed by it... because, obviously, I’ve influenced her."

Gaga herself has been open about her love of her royal Madge-sty.

"I genuinely love her so much," she gushed in an interview last year.

"I think she is so amazing. She could never be replicated and, yes, I’m Italian, I’m from New York, and not for nothing, it’s not my fault that I kind of look like her, right?

"So, look, if anything, it’s more annoying to me that people would insinuate that I don’t like to be compared to her... She’s wonderful and inspiring and liberating, and she’s certainly inspired my album, as did David Bowie, as did Prince, as did Michael Jackson, as did Grace Jones, and I would never take that away."